tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post505478248721499555..comments2023-07-05T06:55:53.577-04:00Comments on College Ready Writing: Higher Ed's Missing Women (and why we all need to care)Lee Skallerup Bessette, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12243750156552824701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post-14402494544739302992010-07-26T15:27:55.144-04:002010-07-26T15:27:55.144-04:00Thanks for putting your blog address up on the Pos...Thanks for putting your blog address up on the Post article. The comments following these kinds of articles are always so depressing, I am glad I can send this link to other people instead.Amandatory Ranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01358544915791645814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post-79649650698267526832010-07-24T14:20:50.597-04:002010-07-24T14:20:50.597-04:00I don't mind at all. I want people to share an...I don't mind at all. I want people to share and I want people to engage in the conversation! <br /><br />And I agree about what the university of the future will (or, more accurately, will not) look like. On Twitter, I've started a hashtag, #higheredapocalypse. I really think that there will be a breaking up of the mega-university. Perhaps not all (I think the "brand" of the Ivies and a few others will survive, or at least last way longer than everyone else) but a large majority. <br /><br />I think that they might not even be institutions, either. I think the tutor, or some variation thereof, will make a comeback. There are too many talented and smart people who are now excluded and lots of people who are dissatisfied with the education they are receiving. When this generation, about to graduate and without work, start really reflecting on their education and start looking at options for their kids, we will see a big, big shift.Lee Skallerup Bessette, PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12243750156552824701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post-2068565300133372422010-07-24T13:59:42.408-04:002010-07-24T13:59:42.408-04:00I agree, higher education needs more women leaders...I agree, higher education needs more women leaders. <br /><br />Not sure, though, if I would blame the decline of higher education on men. There are plenty of women leading with the corporate touch, and even transforming more collegial institutions into business-like operations (Because that's the definition of a successful leader, of course. Women buy into this too.). And, the move towards corporatization of higher education is centuries-old. Higher education, in fact, was a major player in creating the corporate mentality and structure, eclipsed only by the church. I think what we are seeing is a much larger, more complex movement that, in attempting to reconcile exorbitant tuition, unemployable graduates, declining US competitiveness, the shifting nature of the nation-state and its obligation to educate its citizens, etc., has defaulted to imposing not just a corporate solution, but an old-school corporate solution. I actually think the higher education institution of the future will look nothing like the grand old institutions of today or the immediate yesterday, but more like the loose unincorporated communities that came to be the first University of Bologna, which were not unlike tech. start-ups or wikis. <br /><br />If you don't mind, I may cross-post this on my blog http://workprogresslife.com/ at a later date. Thanks for your engaging posts!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com